Serife (Sherry) Wong
@serife.bsky.social
Artist working on critical AI, power, and belief @ IcarusSalon.com & ArtificialLifeCoach.com
Gray Area | Tech Inquiry | ORCAA | Kidd Lab UC Berkeley
Loyal to the Land & the Brass Tax -- #Turkish #Kanaka
Gray Area | Tech Inquiry | ORCAA | Kidd Lab UC Berkeley
Loyal to the Land & the Brass Tax -- #Turkish #Kanaka
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The 7 Trillion Dollar Seance
Şerife Wong The 7 Trillion Dollar Seance 2025 Original score by Jeromey Cooks (rikuwru) This video is part of Icarus Salon. It is intended to be viewed in…
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New art video just dropped! The 7 Trillion Dollar Seance 🔮 This is meant to be performed live, recited in front of the video at conferences, museums, public events. It got a standing ovation at Tech Together in NYC. Your phone works but best on your largest screen.
vimeo.com/1116289621
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The Eric Schickler essay in Larry Bartel's symposium on "What Trump Has Taught Us About Political Science" is one of the most insightful pieces I've read in 2025.
US institutions turned out to be weak, and we have to rethink conventional wisdom.
open access: academic.oup.com/psq/advance-...
US institutions turned out to be weak, and we have to rethink conventional wisdom.
open access: academic.oup.com/psq/advance-...
November 19, 2025 at 8:08 PM
The Eric Schickler essay in Larry Bartel's symposium on "What Trump Has Taught Us About Political Science" is one of the most insightful pieces I've read in 2025.
US institutions turned out to be weak, and we have to rethink conventional wisdom.
open access: academic.oup.com/psq/advance-...
US institutions turned out to be weak, and we have to rethink conventional wisdom.
open access: academic.oup.com/psq/advance-...
Wow. Must read piece from last month. Gripping insider look into the despair that fuels our current politics without despairing about it but finding a ray of light in solidarity. By former FTC commissioner who& one of my favorites on surveillance and race. Solid gold.
@bedoyausa.bsky.social
@bedoyausa.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Wow. Must read piece from last month. Gripping insider look into the despair that fuels our current politics without despairing about it but finding a ray of light in solidarity. By former FTC commissioner who& one of my favorites on surveillance and race. Solid gold.
@bedoyausa.bsky.social
@bedoyausa.bsky.social
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Victory for GEMA in Germany against OpenAI
The Munich Regional Court has handed down its much-awaited decision in GEMA v OpenAI, and it is… a lot, and right on the back of the Getty Images High Court ruling. On the surface, this looks like a clear defeat for OpenAI: the court found copyright…
The Munich Regional Court has handed down its much-awaited decision in GEMA v OpenAI, and it is… a lot, and right on the back of the Getty Images High Court ruling. On the surface, this looks like a clear defeat for OpenAI: the court found copyright…
Victory for GEMA in Germany against OpenAI
The Munich Regional Court has handed down its much-awaited decision in GEMA v OpenAI, and it is… a lot, and right on the back of the Getty Images High Court ruling. On the surface, this looks like a clear defeat for OpenAI: the court found copyright infringement in the model and in the outputs, granted injunctive relief, ordered disclosure, and paved the way for damages to be decided at a later date.
www.technollama.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Victory for GEMA in Germany against OpenAI
The Munich Regional Court has handed down its much-awaited decision in GEMA v OpenAI, and it is… a lot, and right on the back of the Getty Images High Court ruling. On the surface, this looks like a clear defeat for OpenAI: the court found copyright…
The Munich Regional Court has handed down its much-awaited decision in GEMA v OpenAI, and it is… a lot, and right on the back of the Getty Images High Court ruling. On the surface, this looks like a clear defeat for OpenAI: the court found copyright…
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At #MozFest, we organized a surprise main stage session titled "Unlearning Cisnormativity: Trans Justice is Tech Justice."
The recording is now live, w/ @vektra.bsky.social, Dia Kayyali, Elijah MacKinnon, @alexhanna.bsky.social, and myself:
www.mozillafestival.org/en/2025-high...
@mozilla.org
The recording is now live, w/ @vektra.bsky.social, Dia Kayyali, Elijah MacKinnon, @alexhanna.bsky.social, and myself:
www.mozillafestival.org/en/2025-high...
@mozilla.org
Unlearning Cisnormativity - Mozilla Festival 2025
This year at Mozilla Festival, we unlearned the old rules of the internet to imagine new ways to build, connect, and create together. Watch the highlights on-demand.
www.mozillafestival.org
November 22, 2025 at 7:28 PM
At #MozFest, we organized a surprise main stage session titled "Unlearning Cisnormativity: Trans Justice is Tech Justice."
The recording is now live, w/ @vektra.bsky.social, Dia Kayyali, Elijah MacKinnon, @alexhanna.bsky.social, and myself:
www.mozillafestival.org/en/2025-high...
@mozilla.org
The recording is now live, w/ @vektra.bsky.social, Dia Kayyali, Elijah MacKinnon, @alexhanna.bsky.social, and myself:
www.mozillafestival.org/en/2025-high...
@mozilla.org
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"92 million low-income people in the U.S. states—everyone whose income is less than 200 percent of the federal poverty line—have some basic aspect of their lives decided by AI"
www.techtonicjustice.org/reports/ines...
this is a damning report
www.techtonicjustice.org/reports/ines...
this is a damning report
November 23, 2024 at 11:37 AM
"92 million low-income people in the U.S. states—everyone whose income is less than 200 percent of the federal poverty line—have some basic aspect of their lives decided by AI"
www.techtonicjustice.org/reports/ines...
this is a damning report
www.techtonicjustice.org/reports/ines...
this is a damning report
Messed up. But also erosion of trust in reality only assists the worst of power gluttonous despots.
This is dirty as hell. In the Age of "AI," we've all gotta crank up our scrutiny of our contacts Extra high, even for non-"AI" fuckery.
"[Fox] announced a host of stars as part of its new The Life of Jesus Podcast. They failed to mention the audio was recorded for a different project in 2010"
"[Fox] announced a host of stars as part of its new The Life of Jesus Podcast. They failed to mention the audio was recorded for a different project in 2010"
Kristen Bell Is the Star of a New Jesus Podcast From Fox. No One Told Her
Fox's new Jesus podcast features Kristen Bell as the voice of Mary Magdalene. Bell, however, recorded the audio 15 years ago for a different project.
www.rollingstone.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Messed up. But also erosion of trust in reality only assists the worst of power gluttonous despots.
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“We think that it’s essential to balance humans and technology to keep the platform safe"
#TikTok #InspireCreativity #EnrichLife
#TikTok #InspireCreativity #EnrichLife
TikTok to give users power to reduce amount of AI content on their feeds
Platform reveals it hosts more than 1bn AI videos as it starts testing over next few weeks before global rollout
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:09 AM
“We think that it’s essential to balance humans and technology to keep the platform safe"
#TikTok #InspireCreativity #EnrichLife
#TikTok #InspireCreativity #EnrichLife
Education research org doing the hard work on how these tools are being rolled out k-12, with examples at end www.air.org/sites/defaul...
www.air.org
November 20, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Education research org doing the hard work on how these tools are being rolled out k-12, with examples at end www.air.org/sites/defaul...
Diversify your portfolio moments. arstechnica.com/ai/2025/11/g...
Google’s Sundar Pichai warns of “irrationality” in trillion-dollar AI investment boom
Sundar Pichai says no company is immune if AI bubble bursts, echoing dotcom fears.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Diversify your portfolio moments. arstechnica.com/ai/2025/11/g...
Follow up news from @krisshrishak.bsky.social and @abeba.bsky.social on the letter asking President of European commission to retract his hype (Superintelligence ) and the buzz that privacy protections are threatened because of this excitement for "agi" www.techpolicy.press/ai-hype-is-s...
AI Hype Is Steering EU Policy Off Course | TechPolicy.Press
Kris Shrishak and Abeba Birhane say policymakers should stop peddling in unscientific discourse about "AGI" and "superintelligence."
www.techpolicy.press
November 18, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Follow up news from @krisshrishak.bsky.social and @abeba.bsky.social on the letter asking President of European commission to retract his hype (Superintelligence ) and the buzz that privacy protections are threatened because of this excitement for "agi" www.techpolicy.press/ai-hype-is-s...
Anyone else watching pluribus? Cause Samsung did not... this is more of an adbusters style detournement using the tool against itself IMHO www.reddit.com/r/assholedes...
From the assholedesign community on Reddit: Apparently my samsung fridge has ads now...
Explore this post and more from the assholedesign community
www.reddit.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Anyone else watching pluribus? Cause Samsung did not... this is more of an adbusters style detournement using the tool against itself IMHO www.reddit.com/r/assholedes...
ICCL has filed a complaint to the European Ombudsman against the European Commission for its use of generative Al in public documents, which likely violates its own guidelines and its obligation under the treaties.
www.iccl.ie/news/europea...
www.iccl.ie/news/europea...
www.iccl.ie
November 18, 2025 at 2:34 AM
ICCL has filed a complaint to the European Ombudsman against the European Commission for its use of generative Al in public documents, which likely violates its own guidelines and its obligation under the treaties.
www.iccl.ie/news/europea...
www.iccl.ie/news/europea...
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Trailer for my new video: The 7 Trillion Dollar Seance. It's on how AI culture functions like historical spiritualism using our collective grief and fear to shape beliefs that enable greater extraction, violence and the concentration of power. asapjournal.com/node/seance-...
November 13, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Trailer for my new video: The 7 Trillion Dollar Seance. It's on how AI culture functions like historical spiritualism using our collective grief and fear to shape beliefs that enable greater extraction, violence and the concentration of power. asapjournal.com/node/seance-...
My local library is featuring native authors and skimming through their plots was heartbreaking because so many over and over are about murders. Write what you know. Native women are murdered at 10x the national rate a direct legacy of colonialism creating extreme vulnerability
Jaw dropped. Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content
Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content - Oklahoma Watch
The Trump administration removed a congressionally mandated report on missing and murdered Native Americans from the DOJ website, citing compliance with an executive order against DEI. Senators who ch...
oklahomawatch.org
November 17, 2025 at 4:27 PM
My local library is featuring native authors and skimming through their plots was heartbreaking because so many over and over are about murders. Write what you know. Native women are murdered at 10x the national rate a direct legacy of colonialism creating extreme vulnerability
The student surveillance company proctorio which boomed during the pandemic had sued this university employee for critical tweets it said shared confidential info but just exposed their sketchy practices. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
November 17, 2025 at 4:20 PM
The student surveillance company proctorio which boomed during the pandemic had sued this university employee for critical tweets it said shared confidential info but just exposed their sketchy practices. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
If algorithms work so well how come my ads are all
November 17, 2025 at 2:53 AM
If algorithms work so well how come my ads are all
Trailer for my new video: The 7 Trillion Dollar Seance. It's on how AI culture functions like historical spiritualism using our collective grief and fear to shape beliefs that enable greater extraction, violence and the concentration of power. asapjournal.com/node/seance-...
November 13, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Trailer for my new video: The 7 Trillion Dollar Seance. It's on how AI culture functions like historical spiritualism using our collective grief and fear to shape beliefs that enable greater extraction, violence and the concentration of power. asapjournal.com/node/seance-...
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Google considers ICE agents to be a vulnerable group in need of protecting but does not consider the immigrants they're hunting down to be vulnerable group
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
November 13, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Google considers ICE agents to be a vulnerable group in need of protecting but does not consider the immigrants they're hunting down to be vulnerable group
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
There are a lot of efforts like this meant to educate on techs lean to authoritarianism but too often they cut out important people & orgs because they are considered more left even though if you follow the money it's the same crowd. Look at all the missing ppl here www.authoritarian-stack.info
The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
www.authoritarian-stack.info
November 12, 2025 at 6:25 PM
There are a lot of efforts like this meant to educate on techs lean to authoritarianism but too often they cut out important people & orgs because they are considered more left even though if you follow the money it's the same crowd. Look at all the missing ppl here www.authoritarian-stack.info
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My article on 'cute surveillance' is now out Literature: Journal of C21st Writings
'Cute Surveillance: Embodiment, Subjectivity, and Intimacy in Samanta Schweblin’s Little Eyes'
Open access here: c21.openlibhums.org/article/id/1...
'Cute Surveillance: Embodiment, Subjectivity, and Intimacy in Samanta Schweblin’s Little Eyes'
Open access here: c21.openlibhums.org/article/id/1...
Cute Surveillance: Embodiment, Subjectivity, and Intimacy in Samanta Schweblin’s <em>Little Eyes</em>
In recent years, a range of commercial home surveillance products have emerged that foreground ‘cuteness’ as a selling point. From small cat-shaped cameras with detachable ears to ‘pocket robots’ equi...
c21.openlibhums.org
November 11, 2025 at 3:57 AM
My article on 'cute surveillance' is now out Literature: Journal of C21st Writings
'Cute Surveillance: Embodiment, Subjectivity, and Intimacy in Samanta Schweblin’s Little Eyes'
Open access here: c21.openlibhums.org/article/id/1...
'Cute Surveillance: Embodiment, Subjectivity, and Intimacy in Samanta Schweblin’s Little Eyes'
Open access here: c21.openlibhums.org/article/id/1...
@eff.org Gen AI Panel Thursday: EFF Director of Policy and Advocacy @ktrendacosta.bsky.social EFF Staff Attorney Tori Noble, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology Co-Director @pamelasamuelson.bsky.social and Icarus Salon Artist @serife.bsky.social -- sign up: www.eff.org/event/effect...
November 10, 2025 at 6:36 PM
@eff.org Gen AI Panel Thursday: EFF Director of Policy and Advocacy @ktrendacosta.bsky.social EFF Staff Attorney Tori Noble, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology Co-Director @pamelasamuelson.bsky.social and Icarus Salon Artist @serife.bsky.social -- sign up: www.eff.org/event/effect...
Lobbyist have done their jobs and civil society needs to yell and push back here. It's a nasty precedent to loosen data privacy because the EU has AI FOMO, especially when this fear is marketing and cultural and not evidence based.. www.politico.eu/article/brus...
Brussels knifes privacy to feed the AI boom
Draft proposals obtained by POLITICO show EU is breaking sacred privacy regime to placate industry.
www.politico.eu
November 10, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Lobbyist have done their jobs and civil society needs to yell and push back here. It's a nasty precedent to loosen data privacy because the EU has AI FOMO, especially when this fear is marketing and cultural and not evidence based.. www.politico.eu/article/brus...
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot! How could this even get published!??The kind of person in an office who would say something no longer can say it in this climate of fear. www.economist.com/business/202...
Should facial analysis help determine whom companies hire?
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
www.economist.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot! How could this even get published!??The kind of person in an office who would say something no longer can say it in this climate of fear. www.economist.com/business/202...
New art video just dropped! The 7 Trillion Dollar Seance 🔮 This is meant to be performed live, recited in front of the video at conferences, museums, public events. It got a standing ovation at Tech Together in NYC. Your phone works but best on your largest screen.
vimeo.com/1116289621
🧵
vimeo.com/1116289621
🧵
The 7 Trillion Dollar Seance
Şerife Wong The 7 Trillion Dollar Seance 2025 Original score by Jeromey Cooks (rikuwru) This video is part of Icarus Salon. It is intended to be viewed in…
vimeo.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:58 PM
New art video just dropped! The 7 Trillion Dollar Seance 🔮 This is meant to be performed live, recited in front of the video at conferences, museums, public events. It got a standing ovation at Tech Together in NYC. Your phone works but best on your largest screen.
vimeo.com/1116289621
🧵
vimeo.com/1116289621
🧵
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This is sometimes read as "look 'AI' isn't working". But the opposite is true.
_This_ is what "AI" is _for_. Push down labor power, push down wages, make employment more insecure.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/forrester_ai_rehiring/
_This_ is what "AI" is _for_. Push down labor power, push down wages, make employment more insecure.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/forrester_ai_rehiring/
October 30, 2025 at 12:05 PM
This is sometimes read as "look 'AI' isn't working". But the opposite is true.
_This_ is what "AI" is _for_. Push down labor power, push down wages, make employment more insecure.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/forrester_ai_rehiring/
_This_ is what "AI" is _for_. Push down labor power, push down wages, make employment more insecure.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/forrester_ai_rehiring/